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Introduction Several years ago, when I was a newly qualified youth worker I was introduced to a planning tool that revolutionised the way I planned everything from my 3-year youth strategies to individual 30-minute youth work session. Since leaving youth work this planning tool has been a core tool in…

A few months back, I was chatting with business coach over coffee. Very early on in the discussion I mentioned that the heart and soul of Audacious Creative – it’s raison d’être – was to serve the not-for-profit sector with passion and integrity. He looked surprised and then asked me…

Welcome to 2017 and a Happy New Year! I’m going to be really honest and say that 2016 was one of the toughest, most challenging years we’ve had as a business. Circumstances outside of our control meant that a lot of the things I wanted to achieve did not come…

What a couple of months it’s been! We’ve celebrated our fifth birthday with over one hundred local businesses, we’ve started working with some awesome new clients and been asked to mentor a new business owner to help get her marketing consultancy business up and running! Plus we’ve welcomed a new…

This is the second episode in a short series on lessons we can learn from movies. If you missed the first one, you can find it here. I was 13 when I first read The Lord of the Rings and was captivated by J. R. R. Tolkien’s writing. The character…

My daughter has just turned four and her favourite film at the moment is Disney’s Frozen. She watches it at least once a week and loves the main song Let It Go. I come home most days to find her belting out the song at the top of her voice!…

I came across this story recently and it was so powerful I couldn’t help but share it. Hope it inspires you as much a it has me. Stu “Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had…